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Historical Event on 11/11/1675
Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/5/1984 | Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab. |
3/25/1911 | L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay. |
10/17/1915 | Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur. |
10/17/1915 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
1/27/1967 | Delimitation Agreement for Warfare in space was signed by 60 nations in United Nation. |
10/12/1952 | Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand. |
11/24/1989 | Tendulkar scores a record cricket test 50 aged 16 years 214 days. |
10/20/1954 | Surendra Vithal Nayak "Suru Nayak", cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982), was born in Bom |
8/4/2000 | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday. |
11/23/1933 | Rajan Mehra, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1986-87, was born at Delhi. |
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